INQUIRY AND PROJECT BASED LEARNING: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

Step One: Ask a QuestionWhere can you get good questions from?
  • A book, magazine, newspaper article, novel, website or anything else that you read
  • Youtube, TV, Movies, the news or anything else that you watch
  • Song, conversations with your parents, friends, teachers or anything else that you hear.

Step Two: Starting Researching your Question

  • use any resources available to find information about your question.
  • jot down that information.

Step Three: Focusing Your Question

  • use any information that you found to make smaller questions that are about the main question.
  • questions have to have an open end, which means that they are not yes or no questions they are questions that start with Who, What, When, Where, and How.
  • after thinking of all the questions choose questions that are all related to each other.
  • (I.e.) what is the inquiry process?
How is it useful?
Why is it useful?
what can it be used for?


 Step Four: Continuing Research


  • Now the point of the research is to answer all the new questions about the certain topic.
  • any resources can be used as long as they are apropriate.
  • after finding information pertaining to your questions, writing down the information is useful.